Poetry | June 01, 2009
Poetry Feature: Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Johnson
Featuring the poems:
- Bravo
- Charlie (featured as Poem of the Week, Aug. 11, 2009)
- Foxtrot
- November
- Tango
- Zulu
Charlie
A new song. A carol, say, to constancy — not the Northstar’s stubborn pivot, boring nightlong through the pole, but the modest steadfastness of the Big Dipper. Draw a line across its basin, star to star and then beyond the constellation till you find, near-invisible, true North. Selfless gesture, at every hour to point and point away to some obscure and ever-fixèd mark, to be prized for pure devotion,for how it bears the gaze away . . . Isn’t that how it is, in love as in war: someone gets to pull the wagon, and someone, girding his smallness in glittering mail, gets to be Charlemagne.
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